PRINTING PRESSES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 6

PRINTING PRESSES

NEED FOR REGISTRATION [per press association.] WELLINGTON, December 20. In a reserved judgment, to-day, Mr. Page, S.M., convicted Truth N.Z. Ltd., of keeping an unregistered printing press, and imposed the minimum fine of £5. After completely traversing all sections of the Act relating to printers and presses, Mr. Page said the scheme of the Act as he regarded it, was to require all printing plant to be registered and all output to bear an identification mark, namely in respect of printed matter, other than newspapers, the name and address of the printer, and in respect of newspapers, the name and address of both printer and publisher, place of printing and publishing, and the date of publishing. A newspaper must also be registered. He considered therefore that Section 3 of the Act under which prosecution was laid, was of general application, and that every printing press, whether used for printing newspapers or for printing other matter, or for both, must be registered under Section 3.